Best Sellers: Hardcover Nonfiction: Sunday, September 11th 2011

Published: September 11, 2011

About the Best Sellers:

These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the September 11, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending August 27, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from
those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report receiving bulk orders. For an explanation of our methodology, visit https://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers.

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A STOLEN LIFE, by Jaycee Dugard. (Simon & Schuster, $24.99.) A woman tells of being kidnapped at the age of 11 and held prisoner for 18 years by a convicted rapist and his wife.

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41

UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand. (Random House, $27.) An Olympic runner's story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II.

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IN THE GARDEN OF BEASTS, by Erik Larson. (Crown, $26.) This portrait of Berlin during the rise of the Nazi Party concentrates on William E. Dodd, who became the U.S. ambassador to Germany in 1933, and his
daughter, Martha.

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AFTER AMERICA, by Mark Steyn. (Regnery, $29.95.) The writer foresees Armageddon for America, which he says has caught up with Europe in the rush to self-destruction. †

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THE GREATER JOURNEY, by David McCullough. (Simon & Schuster, $37.50.) The historian explores the intellectual legacy that France settled on its 19th-century visitors.

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1493, by Charles C. Mann. (Knopf, $30.50.) Picking up where “1491” left off, the author says that ecological encounters since Columbus have affected much of subsequent human history.

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COCKTAIL HOUR UNDER THE TREE OF FORGETFULNESS, by Alexandra Fuller. (Penguin Press, $25.95.) Fuller's mother is at the center of this memoir set in Africa.